(Finance) – L ‘Italy has not signed the declaration joint which states that the penalties of the USA at the International Criminal Court (CPI) increase the risk of “impunity”. The document was signed by 79 UN member countries including Germany, France, Spain and Great Britain and criticizes the US sanctions to the international body, claiming that “they would seriously compromise all situations currently under investigation, since the Court may have to have to Close its offices on the field “, in addition to” increasing the risk of impunity for the most serious crimes and threaten to erode the state of international law “.
THE’initiative It was started by Slovenia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Sierra Leone and Vanuatu and arrived shortly after the Nations United They asked the United States to revoke the penalties of the CPI. “We deeply deplore the individual sanctions announced yesterday against the staff of the Court and ask that this measure be revoked,” said the spokesman for the United Nations Office for Human Rights Ravine Shamdasani.
The UN special representative on the independence of the judges, Margaret Satterhwaitehe added that “the role of the international criminal court is more crucial than ever”, because the court “is the legacy of the processes of Nuremberg, in order to never allow war crimes and crimes against humanity with unpunished remain”.